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Skáld-Helga saga

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Skáld-Helga saga (the saga of poet-Helgi) is a lost Íslendingasaga. The action is set in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland from around 1000 to 1050. The main character is Helgi Þórðarson, who travels to Greenland and becomes a prominent figure at Brattahlíð. The contents are first attested in the fourteenth-century rímur Skáld-Helga rímur,[1] but this was rewritten as a prose saga in the modern period, and is known through Gísli Konráðsson's account of c. 1820.

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Translations

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  • The Saga of Gunnlaug Snake-Tongue together with The Tale of Scald-Helgi, trans. by Alan Boucher (Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1983), pp. 56–73.

References

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  1. ^ Halldór Hermannsson, cited by heimskringla.no